Latch cover slide



Feb. 10. 192 Q; 1,526,303

a. H. PERRINE LATCH COVER SLIDE Filed Oct. 18, 1924 1 J 7 111m I 6 g Patented Feb. 10, 1925.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE H. PERRINE, OF HASTINGS-ON-HUDSON, NEVJ YORK, ASSIG-NOR TO SCOVILLE MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, A. CORPORATION OF CONNECTICUT.

LATCH COVER SLIDE.

Application filed October 18, 1924.

To (1/! whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, Gnonon H. PERRINE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Hastingson-Hudson, in the county of Vestchester and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Latch Cover Slides, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of this invention is to provide a slide, or slide buckle, which is used for adjusting the length of suspenders or straps for use on wearing apparel, in which an added element is used in the nature of a combined cover and latch which serves to grip and conceal the bends made in the suspender or strap employed in order to connect the suspender or strap and the slide in adjusted position, and also to aid in holding the suspender or strap and slide in adjusted position, and also as a means for receiving an advertisement, name, brand or trademark, and also to prevent the spreading of the slide under strains.

The invention consists of a slide, of the character described, having a series of transverse loop members, to one of which is hinged a cover-plate having at its opposite end a projection which engages the transverse member at the opposite end of the slide to hold the cover or latch in closed position and also to aid in preventing the spreading of the slide under strains of use, and otherwise functioning as above stated, as I will proceed now to explain and finally claim.

In the accompanying drawings illustrating the invention, in the several figures of which like parts are similarly designated, Figure 1 is a front elevation, and Fig. 2 is a side elevation illustrating the slide of this invention applied to one end of a suspender or strap used on overalls, and provided with a loop to engage a button on the overalls. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the slide with the cover turned back. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the slide without the cover. Fig. 5 is a cross section of the slide and its cover in closed position.

I have illustrated my invention as applied to a slide buckle of the character shown in my Patent, No. 1,400,178, dated December 13, 1921, and granted to my assignee, Scovill Manufacturing Company.

Serial No. 744,355.

The slide herein explained like that shown in the patent mentioned, preferably is made of wire, although the invention is not so limited. It cmnprises two loops 1 and 2, connected at one side by a side bar 3, which may have the inset portion at, and free at the other side, the ends 5 and 6 of the loops being elevated above the plane of the remainder of the slide and having their extremities resting on the side bar 3 and preferably not rigidly connected with said side bar, and forn'iing center bars for the slide.

By this construction the two loops have a resilient action toward and from one another, to permit the passage of the sus ponder end or strap between them, their resilience tending to close upon the strap when once in place, and yet there is sufiicient play of the loops to permit the ready positive adjustment of the slide as occasion may require to lengthen or shorten the end of the suspender or strap, without in the least impairing the efliciency of the slide in holding the slide when in adjusted position.

On one of the transverse members of one of the loops is hinged a cover-plate 7, of any suitable design and configuration, and of a length suflicient to lap across the slide and engage the corresponding transverse member of the other loop. As shown in Figs. 1 and 3, this cover-plate may be of less transverse dimensions than the slide, but it is preferred to make its hinge member 8 of substantially the length of the transverse member of the loop on which it is hinged, so as to hold the cover-plate in position and prevent lateral displacement. lhe end of the cover-plate is provided with a pair of projections 9 which, as shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 5, are adapted to spring over and engage the transverse member of the opposite loop to latch the cover-plate in position. This end of the cover-plate also may be provided with a finger-hold 10 by which the cover-plate may be actuated.

In using the slide of this invention, one end 11 of the suspender or strap 12, is passed between the center bars 5 and 6 and by them gripped and then said suspender or strap is turned back upon itself and then it is bent back upon itself to form a loop 1?: to engage a button loop 14:, and

then this end of the suspender or strap is carried through the lower loop 2 and over the end 11 and the two bars 5 and 6, and then through the upper loop and beneath its transverse member and the hinge member of the cover-plate, so that bends are put in the suspender .or strap which serve to aid in holding the slide in adjusted position.

After the slide is in adjusted position on the Suspender or strap, the cover-plate is closed down over the bends and snapped or latched in engagement with the other transverse member oi the slide, as shown in Figs. l, :2 and 5. This cover-plate therefore not only serves as such, but as a latch to aid in holding the slide in position, and particularly to draw the loops together and prevent them from spreading under undue strains, and so to grip the bends of the suspender or strap.

The exposed ttace (iii the cover-ph te may be ornamented in any desired way, or it may have applied to it an advertisement, a makers or sellers name or brand, or trademark.

The slide o'l this invention has all of the advantages of the slide of the patent referred to, and in addition the covei.-plate increases its e'lliciency and utility to the extent described.

While the slide may be made of square wire, as shown, of course it may be made of round wire or of other material.

Variations are permissible in the construction of the slide within the principle of the invention and the claims following.

hat I claim is Luck) 1. A latch cover slide, comprising a slide proper having resilient loops provided with separable yielding center bars elevated above the plane of the remainder of the slide and adapted to receive and grip between them the anchoring end of a suspender or strap, and a cover-plate hinged to one of said loops and provided with projections to engage the other loop and serving to conceal the bends in the Suspender or strap to which the slide is applied and to aid in maintaining the slide in adjusted position and to prevent the spreading of the loops of the slide under strains.

2. A slide, having a plurality of resilient loops ending in transverse center bars bc tween which the Suspender or strap is passed and by which it is gripped, a portion of the said Suspender or strap being carried over the center bars and that portion of the suspender or strap engaged thereby, and a cover plate hinged to one oi the loops and adapted to be closed over the slide and the suspender or strap parts rceved therethrough and grip or press down upon such parts, and having projections to engage the opposite loop to draw the two loops together and thereby hold the suspender or strap firmly between the center bars and maintain the adjustment of the slide on the suspender or strap.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 15th day of October .t. l). 1924-.

GEORGE H. PEPt-RTNE.

\Vitnesses:

ELIZABETH GREGG, RICHARD F. HARvnv.

Certificate of Correction.

It is hereby certified that the nameof the assignee in Letters Patent No.

' 1,526,303, granted February 10, 1925, upon the application of George H. Perrine,

of Hastings-on-Hudson, New York; for an improvement in Latch Cover Slides, should have been Written and printed as ScoviZZj Manufacturing Company instead of scoville Manufacturing Company, as shown by the records of assignments inlthis ofiice; and that the said Letters Patent should be read with this correct-ion therein that the si nie may conform to the record of the case in the Patent Office.

Signed and sealed this 3d day of March, A. D.1-925.

[SEAL.] i KARL F ENNING,

Acting ammmls'sz'oner 0f Patents, 

